Turkey Time

Some of you may have seen this photo on my Instagram account (@vickyheiler) on Sunday, where I told you that we’d be making our first turkey feast. Well, now I can proudly show you a few snapshots! We may still need a bit of practice (the skin ripped as we were turning it on the BBQ & we forgot to tie down the legs, causing the birdy to do the splits while cooking), but we had so much fun & it actually tasted amazing. We were a group of 6 people, 2 really close friends + my brother and his lovely girlfriend. It was perfect for a small gathering, there weren’t too many people in the kitchen and we had a great time cooking together. Everyone was in charge of different things and by the time we sat down for dinner it was definitely well deserved after about 5 hours in the kitchen. Here is what we made: BBQ smoked turkey (with hickory and apple wood chips) with a side of homemade mashed potatos and brussle sprouts with bacon and chestnuts out of the oven, and for dessert I made pecan apple pie and one of our friends made homemade vanilla ice cream with tahitian vanilla – need I say more? I didn’t worry about a super nicely set table or the kitchen looking like a bomb had struck, because really, the day was about spending time with friends and enjoying eachother’s company. Before dinner, Mike made a little toast, giving thanks to the fact that we do have the luxury of sitting down to an amazing meal like that – and he is so right. We really are lucky and I definitely am thankful to be able to have days like this past Sunday! Did any of you celebrate Thanksgiving this year? Have you ever made a turkey?

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We actually started a tradition of celebrating Thanksgiving with our closest friends a couple of years ago. Every year another couple is in charge of the turkey while the others bring along all kinds of side dishes. It is so much fun not only because of the delicious food we enjoy but even more because of the quality time we get to spend together. Besides it is such fun to try out originally American recipes (we are from and live in Germany). The amount of butter used for the meal is something i´d better not talk about but I guess Thanksgiving is no holiday to wonder about a balanced diet 😉

Your food looks absolutely fantastic! The meat seemed to have stayed all nice and juicy (which is something we had to figure out first, because turkey is naturally low fat and thus easily gets kinda dry).
I love that you mentioned the fact about being thankful for what we have and get! Isn´t this truly a wonderful life we get to live?

We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in Portugal =( but when I lived in the US we celebrated it and it was so much fun!!! I did cook a turkey once in the oven and it actually tasted good (I also forgot about the legs xD) and had a lot of fun doing it!

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Bikinis & Passports was founded in February of 2010 as a personal travel diary for family and friends. A place to share the beautiful things in life. Quickly, it transformed into one of Austria’s best-known personal life & style blogs, with topics like fashion, travels, food & beauty. What started out as a hobby turned into Vicky’s full-time job in 2014.